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  • Title: Phylogenetic comparison of lens crystallins from the vertebrate and invertebrate--convergent or divergent evolution?
    Author: Chiou SH.
    Journal: FEBS Lett; 1986 May 26; 201(1):69-73. PubMed ID: 3486783.
    Abstract:
    A systematic biochemical comparison has been made of the crystallins isolated from the lenses of five different species belonging to the five major classes of vertebrates. Gel-permeation chromatography of the lens homogenates on Fractogel TSK HW-55(S) revealed well-defined elution patterns with a characteristic distribution of different classes of crystallins from each species. SDS gel electrophoresis and statistical comparison of the amino acid contents indicated that all crystallin groups from different classes share some common subunits and similarity in their amino acid compositions. The results coupled with the relatedness shown in the amino acid compositions of fish gamma-crystallin with those of mammalian gamma-crystallin and the squid crystallin from the invertebrate pointed to the possibility of the existence of a common ancestral protein for all crystallins. This is in favor of the divergent rather than convergent evolution of lens crystallins as commonly assumed in the literature.
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